Before start-up
Commissioning and turnover readiness: the last phase decides the date.
A commissioning and turnover readiness review tests whether construction completion can become an operating asset on the dates the schedule assumes. Projects are lost between mechanical completion and first fire because the turnover process was never strong enough to carry the start-up skyline.
Commissioning and Turnover Readiness Review
The strength of the owner's or contractor's own start-up process: whether systems and sub-systems are tracked to the component level in a process built into the design, the turnover process itself, the start-up skyline against the dates, punch-list volume and the average time to close, and the readiness of the hand-over packages the operator will accept.
Scope, timing, field involvement, deliverables, confidentiality, and fee are confirmed in writing before work begins.
Start-up Readiness Program
Defines and documents the client's own readiness process: gate criteria, walkdown standard, readiness meeting cadence, turnover package standard, and the dashboard. The client owns and runs the process.
Scope, timing, field involvement, deliverables, confidentiality, and fee are confirmed in writing before work begins.
What the review covers
- Tracking process: whether systems and sub-systems are tracked to the component level, in a process built into the design rather than added at the end.
- Turnover process: how work moves from construction to commissioning to operations, who signs at each step, and how long each step actually takes.
- Start-up skyline: the planned order and dates of system turnovers, read against the commissioning order and the dates the schedule assumes.
- Punch list: the volume of open items, the rate they are being written, and the average time to close.
- Hand-over packages: whether turnover documentation is being built as work completes, in the form the operator will accept.
- Operations readiness: staffing, training, procedures, and the decision cadence through first fire or first gas.
Frequently asked questions
When should a commissioning readiness review be done?
Far enough before mechanical completion that the sequence can still change. On large projects the start-up process needs to be working by roughly 60 to 80 percent of system completion, and earlier for the first systems. A review performed after systems are already being handed over can only document the condition.
What do we receive?
An assessment of the turnover process and the start-up skyline against the dates, the condition of the punch list and the hand-over packages, the critical actions before first fire or first gas, and a written view of which dates the current sequence can actually support.
Contact
Discuss the work in front of you
Begin with the organization’s role, the project context, the current stage, and the work that requires independent review.